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Word is a second booster at the site in the horizontal integration facility was also destroyed.

Impacts go beyond the rocket and pad. This was development for lunar landers to be launched this year, Leo internet satellites to be launched in the coming days, Blue Moon lunar landers for the Artemis lunar program, and on and on. An engine may have been the cause of the mishap and that casts shade on the Vulcan Centaur that also uses the same engine.

It's likely not bought with tax money. The company has various means.

The US government has a few people who do some things that require large quantities of gold bars of blind provenance, indicators of affluence and no accountability. They go to places that don't take US government checks or credit cards. When you have an administrative turnover at war with everything predecessor, some of these people get cashed out.

For some government agencies the ability to get away with fabricated backgrounds is a mandatory qualification. Somebody knew and decided they were cool with this.

No. Blue Origin blew up their only launch pad last night static firing the rocket that detonated. Jeff is likely grounded for a year and this stuff isn't going to happen.

If you're willing to settle for only $30 million, that should be enough to obtain a birth certificate and proof of residency in some remote village.

He told his Ferengi superior that he could keep the latinum.

The problem is American exceptionalism. The idea that America must be better than everywhere and anywhere else in the universe (including all of the black holes) is drilled into them from childhood. The problem with this is that things have become so bad in the US they now have to engage in huge, collective fantasies to make other places seem even worse than the US.

As mentioned, no-one in the UK is in jail for hate speech. That isn't a criminal offence, they're in jail for actual offences such as threats or harassment (yes doing it "with a computer" does not magically make it not a crime). Committing a crime with a hateful motivation is a modifier in court, known as a "aggravating factor" and often leads to a harsher sentence (especially if they don't even fake remorse, which is a "mitigating factor").

He could buy a pardon and still have $39 million left in gold bars. The Grifter in Cheat likes gold too.

This raises a very important question. If the CIA are taking shortcuts and making assumptions about anything, we should not be making assumptions ourselves that the CIA aren't doing the same elsewhere. I am, however, still waiting for biolabs and WMDs to turn up in Iraq - something for which they appear to have ALSO taken one person's unsupported word for. They also ratted out their own officers in retaliation for questioning the existence of "yellowcake" (that turned out not to exist).

I'd be wary of claiming there was a pattern, but... They do seem awfully incompetent.

The IPO is timely for many reasons. One is that falling birds have not yet become a nightly firework display. At 60 going up per week, at some point 60 are coming down per week. Some people are going to really not like that.

The thing is, most managers come from sales, HR, et al. rather than engineering or technical careers so they know that their jobs can be easily automated... this makes them think that all jobs can be replaced by AI.

Case in point: Boeing, look what happened when they replaced their engineers with MBAs. Airbus still has an engineer in charge and is going gangbusters.

Being Jewish does not preclude one from having Fascist tenancies... Or philosophies based on racial superiority. Ticks both the boxes on Nazism.

That being said, I don't think Meta or Zuck are fascists or racist, they're crony capitalists who don't care who or what they destroy in the pursuit of wealth and power. Arguably that's not much of an improvement.

Agreed. Deliberate adding of surface roughness (and even multiple surfaces) have been used in racing yachts for many decades. I think they started doing this in the 90s.